Bowling Golf

One of the things that Lydia and I like to do during the day is go downstairs into the garage and play ball. The garage isn't "outside", but some of the same rules apply. Lydia can run in the garage (but not in the house) and she can use her "outside" voice in the garage. Plus the garage is heated, so it stays around 60 degrees there, which beats the -11 degrees that it is outside right now.

There are only so many ball games you can come up with using just a couple of balls, so I had this idea on a new twist. I took three empty coke bottles and set them up in a triangle and then had Lydia back off with one of her balls and try to roll the ball to knock them over. A very small variation on bowling. She loved it and gave a delighted, shrill cry when she was successful in knocking them down.

After a while, Lydia invented her own variation to help her win. She would go to where ever the ball had quit rolling and roll it from there. Her success rate went up drastically with her small variation of golf. Viola - Bowling Golf.

She wanted to set up the bottles herself, but has not yet mastered getting the triangle shape down pat, so I took some masking tape and marked the spots on the floor, so she just had to put the bottles back on the tape to have them set up correctly.

It wasn't long before she had it down pat of putting the bottles back on the tape and we had a wonderful time today in the garage. I left the tape on the floor so we can start tomorrow with no effort, and the tape doesn't do anything but sit there waiting to be used!